The Kilmaluag Formation on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, provides one of the richest Mesozoic vertebrate fossil assemblages in the UK, and is among the richest globally for Middle Jurassic tetrapods. Since its discovery in 1971, this assemblage has predominantly yielded small-bodied tetrapods, including salamanders, choristoderes, lepidosaurs, turtles, crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs, dinosaurs, non-mammalian cynodonts and mammals, alongside abundant fish and invertebrates. It is protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and by Nature Conservancy Order. Unlike contemporaneous localities from England, this assemblage yields associated partial skeletons, providing unprecedented new data. We present a comprehensive updated overview of the Kilmaluag Formation, including its geology and the fossil collections made to date, with evidence of several species occurrences presented here for the first time. We place the vertebrate faunal assemblage in an international context through comparisons with relevant contemporaneous localities from the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and the US. This wealth of material reveals the Kilmaluag Formation as a vertebrate fossil assemblage of global significance, both in terms of understanding Middle Jurassic faunal composition and the completeness of specimens, with implications for the early evolutionary histories of mammals, squamates and amphibians.

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苏格兰斯凯岛 Kilmaluag 组（Bathonian，中侏罗纪）的多种脊椎动物组合

苏格兰斯凯岛上的 Kilmaluag 组提供了英国最丰富的中生代脊椎动物化石组合之一，并且是全球中侏罗纪四足动物最丰富的组合之一。自 1971 年发现以来，这个组合主要产生了体型较小的四足动物，包括蝾螈、离龙类、鳞龙类、龟类、鳄鱼类、翼龙类、恐龙、非哺乳动物犬齿动物和哺乳动物，以及丰富的鱼类和无脊椎动物。它被保护为具有特殊科学价值的站点并受到大自然保护令的保护。与来自英格兰的同时代地区不同，这个组合产生了相关的部分骨骼，提供了前所未有的新数据。我们提供了 Kilmaluag 组的全面更新概述，包括其地质和迄今为止的化石收藏，首次在这里展示了几种物种出现的证据。我们通过与来自英国、欧洲、非洲、亚洲和美国的相关同时代地区进行比较，将脊椎动物群落置于国际背景下。这些丰富的材料揭示了 Kilmaluag 组作为具有全球意义的脊椎动物化石组合，无论是在了解侏罗纪中期动物群组成还是标本完整性方面，都对哺乳动物、有鳞动物和两栖动物的早期进化历史产生了影响。